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*Strike held on International Women’s Day to reclaim the day**Women express anger at pushback on their human rights* 08 March, 2020 | Chiang Mai, Thailand/New York USA On International Women’s day over one million women in all their diversities, from 59 countries went on a Women’s Global Strike to highlight the injustices women continue to face and demand structural change to advance women’s human rights. Women mobilised in large numbers across the world from the Philippines, India, Fiji, Nepal, United…

*Strike held on International Women’s Day to reclaim the day* *Women express anger at constant attack on their human rights* 08 March, 2020 Chiang Mai, Thailand Today on International Women’s day, over 200,000 women in all their diversities from 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific joined the global call for a Women’s Global Strike saying ‘If Women Stop, The World Stops’. The women in both regions gathered in large numbers to highlight the systemic injustices and violence they continue…

In response to unkept promises made by governments to advance human rights, equality, development and peace for all women, more than 95 feminist organisations from over 36 countries worldwide call for a Women’s Global Strike on International Women’s Day (March 8, 2020). Under the theme, “If women stop, the world stops”, the strike calls women from every corner of the world to stop or slow down their formal or care work and come together to demand women’s human rights. “On…

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Employees at many online retailers, grocery store chains and package-delivery services are planning labour actions Friday to protest what they describe as unsafe working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.